Honest picks for developers and indie hackers who build things.
Three AI gateways compared at indie scale: self-hosted LiteLLM, Portkey with observability, and Cloudflare running free...
Below a certain customer count, a status page is theater. The honest math on when an email list is the better incident t...
Five Vercel AI Gateway alternatives compared on real pricing and lock-in, from OpenRouter to self-hosted LiteLLM.
Your app will go down. A public status page is what keeps that from costing trust. Six tools compared, from free to ente...
Inngest and Trigger.dev are great, but half the apps paying for them just need a queue. A decision framework with verifi...
Stripe is buying OpenRouter and nobody has promised your API or pricing survives. Five real alternatives compared on wha...
Three genuinely different invoicing tools, and the honest case for not buying one at all if you already take payments th...
Three different picks if Metabase isn't working out, none of them Grafana or Superset. Real pricing, real caveats.
Four different ways to pay for web data in 2026, from flat credits to pure metered infrastructure. Real pricing, no gues...
SSHing in to grep a log file works until it does not. Here is when to reach for real log management, and which tool actu...
Three open-source Airtable-style databases, three different bets on what matters. Real pricing and self-hosting details...
Mux's free tier is generous, but delivery costs scale fast. Here's how Cloudflare Stream, Bunny Stream, and api.video co...
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